Antique art

For more than two thousand years, ancient culture determined the development of Western civilization. This book tells about the creative achievements of Greek and Roman artists who created it: about the bold innovations that have come against traditions, about the daring of thoughts, about an uncontrollable desire to capture in stone or paints - for the first time in history - harmonious forms of the human body and All the wealth of his emotions.
Time did not spare ancient art, turning its large monuments to the ruins that amaze the imagination, and the rest - in the chaos of disparate fragments. However, the surviving works and evidence of eyewitnesses that described the disappeared treasures allow us to judge the greatness of the ancient Greeks and Romans created by the ancient Greeks